Pleasure-railway.



McKAY. PLEASURE RAILWAY.

. APPLIUATION FILED OUT. 20, 1909. RENEWED JAN. 13, 1911. 1 ',000,742.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

A TTORNE Y i IQE JAMES MGKAY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PLEASURE-RAILWAY.

LQUQ, 742.

Application filed October 20, 1909, Serial No. 523,657. Renewed January 13, 1911.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MCKAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pleasure-Railways, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pleasure or amusement railways suitable for parks, sea-side resorts or the like; and in such relation, it consists, first, in the character of the vehicle and in the manner of connecting and disconnecting to and from operating mechanism therefor; and second, it consists in the particular constructive arrangement of the operating mechanism, for such pleasure railway vehicles.

My present invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure l, is a side elevational view of a pleasure railway embodying particular main features of my said invention. Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional view on the line 2, 2, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a detached plan view of the traveler-guide wheel and eye-bar for engaging therein the vehicle impelling means and sprocket-chain. Fig. 4, is a vertical central sectional view on the line 4, 4, of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5, is a side elevational view of two of the series of united links of the sprocket-chain of Figs. 1 and 3, showing the particular connected arrangement of the same, for use.

In the drawings a, is a platform centrally slotted at a This platform is preferably mounted on integral or united rectangularshaped skeleton uprights a arranged at proper distances apart and to which the said platform a, is bolted, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. On the platform a, is placed a vehicle body B, for passengers, having front and rear wheels 6, provided with axles 72 for supporting above the same by means of perches b the said vehicle body. Projecting centrally or thereabouts from the front and rear wheel axles b and suitably connected therewith is a framing 6 having a depending bar 6*, arranged to engage an Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Serial No. 602,475.

eye-bar 0, formed preferably integral with a recessed bearing 0 bolted to a grooved traveler wheel 0 as fully illustrated in Fig. 4. This wheel 0 is mounted to run between upper and lower arranged rails cl, (P, on bearings (Z (Z securely bolted to one of the uprights M, for the platform a, and within the conduit a as fully illustrated in Fig. 2. In the recessed portion of the bearing 0 is arranged the sprocket chain c, of preferably the type or form shown in Fig. 3, and ar ranged so as to engage a sprocket-wheel f, journaled to a framework but located to one side-of the eye-bar 0. This sprocket wheel f, is to be operated from a source of power, not shown, for actuating the sprocket-chain 6 which motion is communicated to the grooved traveler wheel 0 and therewith the bar 5 arranged to impel the pleasure-vehicle B, along the platform a, in a direction according to the designed arrangement of the slotted platform a, for the vehicle to travel over for pleasure or amusement.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a pleasure railway, a slotted platform, a vehicle carried thereon and having a device depending from an axle through said slotted platform, traveler means located beneath said platform and having an eyebar to engage the depending device of said vehicle and means for actuating said traveler means, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a pleasure railway, a slotted supported platform, a vehicle having depending bars extending from the axles thereof through said slotted platform, rails carrying a grooved wheel with a recessed eye-bar located beneath the platform and to one side of the slot thereof, a sprocket-chain carried in the recess of said bar and a sprocketwheel, and means to actuate said wheel, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In a pleasure railway, a slotted platform, a wheeled vehicle having depending from the axles thereof, bars extending through said slotted platform, rails extending from certain of the uprights for said platform and located beneath the same, a In witness whereof, I have hereunto set grooved-Wheel engaglng sald ralls and carmy slgnature 1n the presence 01' two subrylng a recessed eye-bar, 1n WhlCh recess 1s scrlblng Witnesses.

mounted a sprocket-chain, a sprocket Wheel JAMES MOKAY. arranged to engage said chain and means to Witnesses:

actuate said Wheel, substantially as and for THOMAS M. SMITH,

the purposes described. ELISABETH A. SHELDRAKE.

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